Since launching Windows Phone 7, it’s marketshare has dropped 38% which means that by the time that Nokia introduces Windows Phone 7 devices, the OS may be about as popular as the Symbian OS it dropped in support of Windows 7. The question is for how much longer handset makers and carriers will consider it [...]
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The World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide
As the New York Times puts it, we have seen the enemy and it is Powerpoint. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl [...]
Essential Windows 7 Downloads
New computer means that I get to go through the process of installing new applications as well as some old favorites. In case you are wondering, here is my list of essential Windows software downloads. Office and Productivity Open Office (free) with some excellent extensions that are now available. AbiWord (free) When I write I [...]
HD Webcam from Microsoft
Ever since the Apple iSight came out, I have been clamoring for a webcam that would rival the Apple iSight. I assumed it would come from Logitech but it actually came from Microsoft. It’s only several years late but it’s finally here and it has HD. It’s about time. While I am linking to Jordon [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Road Warrior
I don’t travel very much anymore but the routine of leaving home, boarding planes, bad coffee, bad sleep, and doing it all over again had me thinking about the best tools for the road warriors on your Christmas shopping list. If this list doesn’t do anything for you, feel free to check out my other [...]
Eat Your Own Dogfood
I was reading Thomas Hawk’s excellent post on how the CEO and the marketing chief of Yahoo! doesn’t use Flickr when I clicked on a link to this great e-mail from 2003 by Bill Gates over his frustration in trying to download a piece of Microsoft software. It goes beyond technology. I keep thinking of [...]
Windows Users are WAY cooler than Mac users
You don’t see cool internal videos like these coming from Apple. Steve Balmer sells the virtues of Windows 1.0 Of course here are the advantages to upgrading to Windows 386 Of course nothing says cool like a rap about upgrading MS-DOS 5. The stupidity doesn’t stop. Here is a really odd internal video about Vista [...]
